Compelling Social Anxiety: Impressions and Perspective
Free 12 Minute Aha! Teaching Moment
Telling individuals with compelling social anxiety that others are having thoughts about them might lead to more anxiety. In this video, Michelle Garcia Winner explains how she helped her 15-year-old client manage his social anxiety by focusing on the impressions he forms of peers, rather than on the impressions peers may be forming of him.
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If you know someone who’s highly socially anxious all the time, they may suffer from compelling social anxiety and need more support than most. Telling individuals with compelling social anxiety that others are having thoughts about them might lead to more anxiety.
In this video, Michelle Garcia Winner explains how she helped her 15-year-old client manage his social anxiety by focusing on the impressions he forms of peers, rather than on the impressions peers may be forming of him.
Teachable Takeaways:
- Learn about the real-life challenges of one of our clients
- Discover the treatment strategies Michelle used with a 15-year-old boy with social anxiety, depression, and late diagnosis of autism
- Watch Michelle explain how to encourage student motivation and anxiety management
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Teachable Takeaways:
- Learn about the real-life challenges of one of our clients
- Discover the treatment strategies Michelle used with a 15-year-old boy with social anxiety, depression, and late diagnosis of autism
- Watch Michelle explain how to encourage student motivation and anxiety management
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However, we do offer an array of Online Training courses that are pre-approved for continuing education credit for select professions in the U.S. and Canada and a personalized Certificate of Completion! All our Online Training courses are informed by the latest research and 20+ years of clinical work, and honed through hundreds of worldwide presentations, these one-of-a-kind online training video courses explore all aspects of developing social competencies including building self-regulation, executive functioning, social problem solving abilities, and much more.
Teachable Takeaways:
- Learn about the real-life challenges of one of our clients
- Discover the treatment strategies Michelle used with a 15-year-old boy with social anxiety, depression, and late diagnosis of autism
- Watch Michelle explain how to encourage student motivation and anxiety management
Social Anxiety and Talking in Class
We learn so much from our clients—and we want to share it with you. In this free 12 minute video, Social Thinking founder Michelle Garcia Winner shares what she learned when helping a client with social anxiety talk more in class—and the other factors she discovered that likely make the social anxiety more profound.
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Some students have significant anxiety that can get in the way of them accessing their solid social knowledge. We have found that helping students learn about their own anxiety can also help them recognize and practice their social competencies. A few years ago I developed a tool, alongside and with a group of students, to help them talk about the complexity of their social anxieties and how it can impact their social world. We collectively named the tool, The Spirals or The Spirals of Anxiety. This article will show the tool and explain our group journey.
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